Improved horse-collar fastener



No. 48,735. PATBNTFD JULY '11, 1865. A. STEINBAGH.

LOCK AND FASTENING FOR HORSE DOLLARS.

f UNITED ST T Pet-Ten r rricnr.

.i PRovEn woese cotms t erefrom,

Specification forming part of Letters Petent No. 83235, dated July 11,1865. I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A. STEINBAoH, ofEvan sville, in the county ofVanderhnrg and State of Indiana, here in ren ted a newand Improved Lockor. Fastening for Horse-Collars; end I do hereby declare thatthe-following is a full, clenr,and'exnct description thereof, which willenable those skilled in the art' to make end use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecitication.

Figure 1 is n plan or top view of my invention, showing the two parts ofthe invention detached; Fig. 2, a plan ortop view of the same, showingthe two parts connected together; and

' Fig. 3, a vertical section of the same, taken in the line .n :r, Fig.2. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to anew and improved lock or fastening forconnecting together the upper ends of a'liorse-collnr.

The ohjectot' the invention is to obtain a lock orfilsteningof the kindspecified which may same width as the collar at its upper part, and

is bent 'inelongitudinal direction to conform to the curvature of theneck of the horse. This .plrite is connected by rivets'a to the'top ofone side'ot the collar B. At'the center of the plate Athere is made i anoblong holeor slot, 0,} one end of "which is enlarged laterally, asshown at b, the other portion of the slot being of an'eqnel widththroughout, as shown clenrly in Fig. 1. At each side ofthis slot; 0there is an inclined ledge, c, and

this ledge forms abrupt shoulders d at one end, as shown cleerlyin Fig.3. These ledges odo not extendthe whole length of the slot 0, but

from the inner end of theenlarged pert b to 1 within a short distance oftheopposite end, a part, c, of the slot 0, neerlyeqnal in length to thepart I), being allowed beyond the shonltiers d. i

1) represents a plate, which is secured by rivets f to the upper end ofthe other part'of the collar B. This plate D has a. bar or arm, E,projecting centrally from it at right angles, and at the outer end ofthe bar or arm E, at each side ofit, there is a projection or lip, g. iIn order to connect thetwo parts of the col= lar together, the opera torinserts the outer'part of the bar or arm E through the enlarged part bof the slot 0, and then draws the platesAD apart or from each otheruntil the projections or lips 9 pass over the. inclined edgesc c, as

shown in Figs. Z'and 3, Th projections'or'lips A y, it will be seen,extend over the sidcsip't the slot 0, and the shoulders (I preventthejprojectionsor lipsfroin slipping back-toward thcen; lat-god end, b,of the slot. l

In order; to detach the two plates-A D,tho operator raises the plate Dand depresses the plate A so that theproic'ctions oi: lips I may beshoved over the shonhiers d and backw-to the enlarged part bet the slot0, where theprOjec, tions orlips may pass down'threrigh the slot. Thislock or listening may he cheaply coristrncted and applied and the twoparts of the collarreadily connected and disconnected.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let tersPatent T v Theplate A.attached to. one side or pn'rt'ot' the npperpart ot the horsecollarand'pro rided with the slot 0, having an enlarged part and an inclinedledge, a, at each side, 'ae sirranged with the plateD,-nttachedf0thieother side or part of the collar, and having a bar or" arm, E,provided with a projection 01 lip, g, at

each side of its outer part, substantially as and for the purposeset'fortl A, STEINBAOH. Witnesses: 1

